With the galloping development of modern technologies the screen size margin of your readership can be anything in-between a 30″ desktop monitor and the iPhone’s 3.5″ screen. Responsive design techniques kills two birds with a single stone by helping improve user experience by displaying a screen sized optimized version of your website. You can help your WordPress website become more mobile-friendly, and here is a list of the most useful WordPress plugins that would help you in that. You’ll find [...]

One of the biggest reasons behind WordPress’ popularity is the vast number of plugins that can not only extend its functionality but there are also many plugins that will improve the performance of a site. These plugins have the capability to make a site faster, that is, they enable it to load quicker and more efficiently. They will ultimately help in improving the search engine rank of a page. If a site takes a long time to load, it can’t [...]

Mobile browsing clearly does have its limitations, mainly from its smaller physical design, but it also limited by web sites not having a mobile version tailored for the smaller screen. Current mobile web browsing stats stands at 4.5% of total world-wide internet usage and, with the prediction for the next five years being that more users will connect to the internet over mobile devices than desktop computers, it is now time to act and make your website mobile friendly. Of [...]

If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular – that is a fact. So, if you own a WordPress blog and you are looking for an effective way to create a real sense of user interactivity on your blog, in this post, I highlight some fantastic plug-ins and resources, that you may not know about, that can be of great help in creating a sense of involvement [...]

WordPress is one of the most popular and widely-used blogging platforms and CMSs (content management system). The reason is it’s easy to install and use, so you can focus on creating content rather than building and maintaining your website. Everything from small personal blogs to big digital magazines like Smashing use WordPress to run their sites. Chances are you’re using WordPress for your own site or are planning on using it. Well, although WordPress is fine out of the box, [...]

A while back the WordPress community use to be a bunch of coders that were all supporting themselves. One guy would create a nice plugin to manage most popular posts, another to manage social networking… Things were great and people helped each other. WOOHOO! Although the golden years are now happening for the makers of WordPress (Automattic), the makers of the plugins and to a lesser extent themes are really the un-sung hero’s of the situation. These guys and girls [...]

Having to repeatedly create content to flesh every new web project is not only time consuming, it is also very, very frustrating. You have to create new posts, pages, menu items, categories, tags, users… and … and on. The sad thing is you have to do this, your web design has to be thoroughly sanity checked, there is no other way to do it. Or is there? Thankfully, there are helpful resources that can take the mundanity out of adding [...]

It has been almost two years since we last published a post on WordPress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking. Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much redundant and no longer supported, so this post takes a fresh look at the best Social Bookmarking solutions for WordPress. The plugins you see below are not in any order, [...]

No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles and content. And on top off all that, with the correct image selection and well chosen content they look great as well. When you take [...]

There is not much left that you can not do with WordPress. With every new update it becomes ever more powerful and there are a multitude of plugins and themes that can unleash its full potential that leaves its rival CMSes in its wake. And nothing more epitomizes its power, versatility and ease of use than the ecommerce solutions it offers. Almost two years ago we published a popular article called 10 Powerful Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress, and upon [...]

Giving users the ability to interact with your web site is one of the key elements to its success. Allowing users to post a comment or response and socially sharing are two of the basic fundamentals of web interaction, another, maybe less popular, is giving users the quickfire option of grading or rating a post, by using the super simple five star method or by the voting up or down approach. Below you will find a selection of Javascript (jQuery, [...]

One of the most popular support emails that we receive from readers and bloggers is how do we display and were do we get the social bookmarking widgets that you can see within our posts. For most the answer will probably be obvious and simple (think of this page as your one-stop-shop for sharing widgets instead), but of course, if you are just starting out it can be understandably tricky finding and implementing the code. What we have done is [...]

Out of the box Wordpress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are there limits?